On Tuesday 14 Jan 2003 22:04, Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Tuesday 14 Jan 2003 5:06 pm, Andrei Raevsky wrote:
> > Hi Anne,
> >
> > I have considered the idea. However, a cat on these two files show
> > that they are similar to /etc/passwd, they both belong to root and are
> > both read-only for all o
On Tuesday 14 January 2003 17:06, Andrei Raevsky wrote:
> Hi Anne,
>
> I have considered the idea. However, a cat on these two files show that
> they are similar to /etc/passwd, they both belong to root and are both
> read-only for all others, look:
>
> [andrei@localhost etc]$ ls -lac gtmp ptmp
>
In reply to Andrei's mail, d.d. Tue, 14 Jan 2003 12:06:35 -0500:
>[andrei@localhost etc]$ ls -lac gtmp ptmp
>-rw-r--r--1 root root 635 Jan 13 10:47 gtmp
>-rw-r--r--1 root root 1365 Jan 13 10:47 ptmp
>
>are you absolutely sure that these are non-critical files?
I d
Hi Anne,
I have considered the idea. However, a cat on these two files show that
they are similar to /etc/passwd, they both belong to root and are both
read-only for all others, look:
[andrei@localhost etc]$ ls -lac gtmp ptmp
-rw-r--r--1 root root 635 Jan 13 10:47 gtmp
-rw-r--
Top posting - as it's such a long message that probably should all be quoted
:)
Have you tried deleting /etc/ptmp or /etc/gtmp or both if both exist? They
are temp files that get left behind if something goes wrong, and won't damage
anything else.
Anne
On Tuesday 14 Jan 2003 3:20 pm, Andrei
Hi,
I already was having some problems with the mandrake control center before.
When I was trying to do anything with it, it was systematically telling me
that "changes made in this module will not be recorded" (or some very
similiar message). Yesterday, however, things got nastier.
I wanted
